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Episode: POPB The Anchorman: How Eric Roby Went From Poverty to Public Persona
Description: He grew up in poverty in West Virginia and lived in constant fear that something would happen to his father in the coal mines. Eric Roby knew his only way out was education and TV news. But the journalist also knew he had to hide an important part of himself in order to stay in the public eye. You know Eric Roby as the sometimes serious, sometimes funny face of morning news; but, as his longtime co-anchor found out, even she didn't really know the man she sat next to for years. Hear why Eric Roby has been, until...